Lessons from the space shuttle Challenger disaster
David Linnard Wheeler
8/28/2020
What happened
The space shuttle Challenger was ready to launch on the morning of Tuesday, January 28, 1986.
Prepared to launch
This was a non-trivial flight.
The crew
The night before the launch there was a 3 hour teleconference between Morton Thoikol, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Kennedy Space Center. The subject of the call was the \(31^\circ\)F forecast for the next morning.
